In the Vikings offices at Winter Park, they often have videoconferences with the principal owners of the team, Zygi and Mark Wilf, who are based in New Jersey.

There was such a meeting on Tuesday that was unusual, because the non-football executives took part.

You want a good guess what one of the topics was, in addition to updates on the stadium?

Well, look for an announcement any day that coach Leslie Frazier is going to get a contract extension. As reported in my column on Dec. 10, Frazier is going to be the team's coach in the future, and I believe he will get a two- or three-year extension to his current deal, which expires after next season.

The Wilfs have an outstanding relationship with Frazier, one that has improved steadily since he took over as the team's coach near the end of the 2010 season.

New thinking at U

All the talk about adding athletic facilities at the University of Minnesota has usually focused on putting those facilities around the TCF Bank Stadium-Williams Arena-Mariucci Arena area.

But Norwood Teague, the Gophers athletic director, and his new staff have different ideas. They would like to see everything built around the Bierman Building, including the basketball offices and any new basketball practice facility. The Gibson-Nagurski football building will be enlarged and remodeled, a new track will be built, among other things, if everything eventually gets approved. This is a change in thinking, but likely the way they will go.